Bernadette Treanor is the founder of Beo Solutions, an employee relations and engagement consultancy which provides best practice expert leadership and impartial organisational support in the areas of employee relations, employee engagement, workplace investigations, disciplinary hearings and mediation.
An expert in equality law, Bernadette provides Equality reviews and assessments, including assessments of cases being prepared. She is a Committee member of the Employment Law Association of Ireland (ELAI) and CIPD member. She reviews equality Decisions issued by the Equality Tribunal for Legal Island monthly and chairs its annual Equality Conference aimed at equality practitioners.
The matter before the Labour Court on appeal was whether the Adjudicator was correct in granting an extension of time at first instance. The complainant was unhappy with a promotion competition in February 2014. She became pregnant and went on maternity leave in September 2014. Ten days after the birth of her child in November 2014 the complainant broke her wrist and required opioid painkillers. The Adjudicator accepted those reasons as amounting to reasonable cause and extended the time for the submission of the complaint which was made exactly a year following the most recent alleged discriminatory act.
The Court usefully goes through a detailed consideration of reasonable cause including previous Labour Court and High Court Decisions and concludes
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